Obama loses his shootout with rural America

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When country people have to wait an hour for a sheriff to arrive, they aren’t ready to surrender their guns

America’s culture wars have entered a new phase. As the country has grown more
urban and secular, Americans have embraced causes such as same-sex civil
marriage and marijuana legalisation with astonishing speed. Whereas cultural
conservatives have long held the upper hand in many of the nation’s most
contentious debates, social liberalism has been, or at least has seemed,
ascendant during the Obama years. Some American Democrats are convinced that
this is their moment to enact other far-reaching social changes. So when the
President committed his Administration to fighting for new gun controls in
the wake of the gruesome school shooting